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In Germany and Switzerland, three Ukrainian men were arrested in the name of Russia for planning sabotage against infrastructure in Europe, the German authorities said on Wednesday.
The state prosecutor in Berlin said that the three men who have been arrested in the past five days were examined to send fire and explosive devices in plots of addresses in Ukraine. Nobody was charged.
The goal, said the prosecutor in an explanation, seemed to be part of a property to damage the logistical infrastructure for commercial freight. The explanation contained no further details about possible goals.
One of the men, who was only identified as Vladyslav T. in accordance with the strict data protection rules in Germany, published two test packages in Cologne with GPS channels to pursue the route of the packages to Ukraine, said the prosecutor.
Another man, Yevhen B., who was arrested in Switzerland on Tuesday and will be delivered to Germany, led this lawsuit, said the prosecutor. A third man, Daniil B., delivered the GPS channels and other objects for the test packages, it said.
The authorities treat men as foreign agents and believe that they were led by Russian state actors, said the prosecutor.
Last year, a package exploded in a DHL hub at the airport in Leipzig, which western intelligence officers believe that it was a test run for a conspiracy that was coordinated by the Russia’s military intelligence agency, which was coordinated. The fire in Leipzig was followed by a similar fire in a DHL warehouse in Birmingham, England, and in a transport company near Warsaw.
A Romanian citizen has since been arrested by the British police in connection with these fires.
Poland has also accused Russia of standing behind a fire that extinguished 1,400 small companies when a shopping center in Warsaw was almost completely destroyed in May last year. On Sunday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland Russia accused behind the flame.
“We now know certain that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping center in Warsaw was caused by arson pencils ordered by the Russian special services.” He wrote about X.
After several official warnings, the arrests come that Germany has become the goal of Russian hybrid attacks. Last year, the authorities charged three Russian-German dual citizens, of which they believe they carry out sabotage files at industrial and military sites. The military also has reported Foreign drones fly over training locations where Ukrainian soldiers are trained.
The question of Russian sabotage in Germany even made it to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first speech before the legislator on Wednesday.
“Take a look at the espionage and sabotage and the systematic disinformation of our population – this is overwhelming the work of the Russian government and its helpers, here too,” he said.